Game-board.



No. 820,856. PATENTED MAY 8, 1906.

A. G. GEDNEY.

GAME BOARD.

APPLICATION FILED FEB. 14, 1906.

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. UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Ma s, 1906.

Application filed February 14,1906. $erial No. 300,962.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALBERT G. GEDNEY, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of New York, in the county of New York and State of New York, have made a certain new and useful Invention in Game-Boards and I declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the invention, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to letters of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

The invention relates to boards for cardplaying; and it consists in the novel construction and combinations of parts, as hereinafter set forth.

The object of the invention is to promote the use of playing-cards under unusual conditions, such as when one is traveling in a railway-coach or when seated on the deck of a steamship or upon a veranda or when con fined to ones bed for any reason.

In the accompanying drawings, illustrating the invention, Figure 1 is a plan view of my invention as applied with the cards in place. Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the same with the cards removed. Fig. 3 is a section on the line 3 3, Fig. 1, with cards re moved; and Fig. 4 is a section on the line 4 4, Fig. 1, with the cards removed.

In the drawings the letter a designates the board, usually made in two sections 1) b, hinged together and adapted to be folded into small compass. This board is of sufficiently thick character to accommodate pockets c, formed therein and of about the size and shape of playing-cards, these pockets thus varying somewhat in size, according to the size of the cards used. The board being chiefly designed for use in playing solitaire, a clasp or fastener d is provided at one edge (1 of the pockets, which engages the first or bottom card 6 at its upper marginal or edge portion and holds it in its position with its top edge against the top edge of the pocket. All of the pockets have a length somewhat greater than the length of the card, so that all cards played upon the bottommost or first card of each pocket will be allowed movement away from this bottom card 6, so as to expose the upper portion thereof having the distinguishing-mark thereon, as at e, and so that its character will be always known to the player. Thus it will be seen that the four pockets in the upper row f will receive the four suits, as in the usual game of solitaire, and the four pockets in the lower row 9 will receive the four cards played after the first thirteen cards have been counted off and placed aside and that when cards are played upon these bottommost cards they will yet remain exposed sufficiently at their upper portions to be plainly known no matter what the inclination of the board, and as a retaining-wall h covers each pocket at the lower portion thereof the cards cannot escape from the pockets and yet can be easily placed therein when played.

One pocket 0 at one end of the board is deeper than the other pockets 0 and hasno fastener or clasp device d, as it is adapted to receive the pile or pack from which the cards are played. Another pocket 0 at one end of the board has also no fastener and is adapted to receive the thirteen cards first counted off the pack.

The use of the invention affords a very much more comfortable method of playing cards than with the arms upon or held over a table. The board may lie upon the lap or be placed at an angle against a support. The partly-inclosed pockets and the clasps hold the cards from slipping or shifting or from being scattered by the wind, and the ease with which the cards may be collected after a game adds much to the pleasure of the diversion. The means for reducing the size of the board by folding adapts it for stowage in such small bags as are usually carried by travelers.

The arrangement of pockets in the accompanyin illustrations are designed for the game 0 solitaire; but the same form may be used for other games, or the board may have fewer or more or differently-arranged pockets to meet the requirements of different games. The clasps for holding the base or bottom cards may be made of spring-wire or strips of metal, cardboard, or other suitable material.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. A playing-card board having a plurality of pockets adapted to loosely hold cards, and edge-clasping means to retain a bottom card in an exposed position in the pocket.

2. A playing-card board having a plurality of pockets closed at the bottom and upon four sides, and having partial covers, and means for clasping a marginal portion of the IIO bottom card to retain it in an exposed position in the pocket.

3. A playing-card board having a plurality of pockets adapted to loosely hold cards, closed at the bottom and sides and having partial covers, and means engaging a bottom card to retain it in an exposed position in the pocket.

4. A playing-card board having a plurality of pockets, adapted to loosely hold cards and edge-engaging means for a bottom card to retain it in an exposed position in the pocket.

5. A playing-card board having card-holding pookets closed at the bottom and upon four sides and having partial covers, said pockets being provided With clasp devices to retain the bottom cards in position.

6. A playing-card board having card-holding pockets of greater length than the length of the cards and provided With'olasp devices to retain the bottom cards in position, said pockets being closed at the bottom and upon four sides and having partial covers.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two Witnesses.

ALBERT G. GEDNEY.

Witnesses: r

HERBERT O. EMERY, LILLIAN B. SELBY. 

